SONGS OF TWO NATIONS

SONGS OF TWO NATIONS

BY

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

I. A SONG OF ITALY

II. ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE

FRENCH REPUBLIC

III. DIRÆ

London

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY

BIBLIOTHECA
REGIA
MONACENSIS

SPOTTISWOODE

LONDON: PRINTED BY

AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE

AND PARLIAMENT STREET

I saw the double-featured statue stand

Of Memnon or of Fanus, half with night Veiled, and fast bound with iron; half with light Crowned, holding all men's future in his hand.

And all the old westward face of time grown grey
Was writ with cursing and inscribed for death
But on the face that met the morning's breath
Fear died of hope as darkness dies of day.